Outcomes and prognosis news from aidsmap

Smoking has the potential to shorten the life of a person
taking HIV treatment by an average of six years, and is far more harmful to the
life expectancy of people living with HIV than well-managed HIV infection ...

The 2016 International Congress on Drug Therapy in HIV Infection (HIV Glasgow) heard today that over a 20-year period, people who suffered
lipodystrophy (fat redistribution) and especially lipoatrophy (fat loss) when
they started antiretroviral therapy (ART) actually had ...

People with HIV who have lower educational attainment have poorer outcomes after starting
combination antiretroviral therapy (cART), according to data from a large
European cohort collaboration published in the online edition of AIDS. Rates of mortality and AIDS
decreased ...

A very low viral
load (20-49 copies/ml) during HIV therapy does not increase the risk of the
subsequent virological failure of treatment (viral load above 200 copies/ml),
according to Spanish research published in HIV
Medicine.
The findings of
the study will ...

There are
significant disparities in the life expectancy of HIV-positive people
starting combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) between world regions,
according to the results of a meta-analysis published in HIV Medicine. In high-income countries, a 20 year old starting treatment ...

A package of enhanced prophylaxis against infections
significantly reduced the risk of death in adults and children with advanced
HIV disease after starting antiretroviral treatment in a randomised study,
Professor James Hakim of the University of Zimbabwe told the ...

People with undetectable viral load who switched from taking the Atripla single-tablet regimen
(efavirenz/tenofovir/emtricitabine) every day to just every other weekday were
able to maintain viral suppression for six months, and longer follow-up is
planned, according to research presented ...

The frequency of
routine monitoring for people treated with antiretrovirals with viral suppression
can be safely reduced from every three months, to every six months, investigators from Europe and the United States
report in the June 1st edition of ...

The proportion of people living with HIV receiving care in the United States who accessed
antiretroviral therapy (ART) and achieved viral suppression increased
substantially between 2009 and 2013, according to research published in the
online edition of AIDS.
There was ...

There is no
evidence that HIV-positive people with sub-type C infection have an increased
risk of treatment failure when receiving tenofovir-containing regimens,
investigators from the UK report in the online edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
Investigators monitored over ...

Outcomes and prognosis news selected from other sources

Smoking may shorten the lifespan of people living with HIV more than HIV itselfEurekAlert (press release)A new study led by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) finds that cigarette smoking substantially reduces the lifespan of people living with HIV in the U.S., potentially even more than HIV itself.

Over 17 years, researchers followed HIV-positive men and women who were already in the mid-stage of their disease by the time the study began. They found that people who engaged in spiritual practices and thinking had a greater rate of survival than people who did not—two to four times greater, in fact.

One of the first groups of HIV patients in a poor country to get free AIDS drugs has about the same survival rate as their closest counterparts in the United States, according to scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College.

One of the first groups of AIDS patients to receive free HIV drugs in a public health setting in the developing world is living as long as those in the United States, according to research conducted by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

The study, from the Canadian Observational Cohort Collaboration, indicated the overall life expectancy of Canadians undergoing antiretroviral treatment for the AIDS-causing virus had climbed to 65 years -- about a 16-year jump since 2000.

People living with the HIV virus today can expect to live nearly two decades longer than those who were diagnosed at the start of this century, thanks to cheaper and more readily available antiretroviral drugs, the UN said in a major report on a disease once seen by many as a death sentence to be endured in secrecy. The average HIV-positive person is now expected to live for 55 years – 19 years longer than in 2001, according to the report by the UN’s Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAids).

The AIDS targets of MDG 6—halting and reversing the spread of HIV—have been achieved and exceeded, according to a new report released today by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). New HIV infections have fallen by 35% and AIDS-related deaths by 41%. The global response to HIV has averted 30 million new HIV infections and nearly 8 million (7.8 million) AIDS-related deaths since 2000, when the MDGs were set.

Long-term opioid use conferred a 40% higher death risk in a prospective study of U.S. veterans with or without HIV. The heightened risk ran to 46% in veterans with HIV compared with 25% in those without HIV. Long-term benzodiazepine use also inflated death risk in this population.

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